May 2012
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Can London Afford the $14.5 Billion Price Tag of... →
Based on this Vanity Fair article, and the spiralling cost (more than £11bn) to the UK of hosting the Olympics, then as a British tax payer it is my considered opinion that the International Olympic Committee can go fuck itself.
Whedon on "The Avengers" →
Utterly charming.
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April 2012
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Dinner tonight
Danielle and I made a three course meal for our friends Scott and Ali tonight, to celebrate my promotion to “application architect” this week. Appetiser was chips and dips (a bit cheaty, but hey, it’s a school night so prep time is short, plus I only have one oven right now). We made fresh guacamole and a from-scratch caramelised onion dip (with sour cream, mayo, and cream cheese) which...
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"Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less... →
Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,” The Daily Beast reports.
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March 2012
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steelopus asked: Can I expect a follow-up post (here or TUAW) about your SSD install process, or shall I just email you to pick your brain?
February 2012
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January 2012
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Whedeontastic
Last night, Danielle and I watched Angel season 5 episode 22, Not Fade Away — the show’s finale. And thus we concluded our seven (I think) month mission to watch the entirety of Buffy and Angel from the beginning.
It holds up really, really well, if you were wondering.
This means in 2011, with a little bit of overspill, we got through all of The Wire, The Sopranos, Buffy, Angel,...
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Windows Phone 7 "spiffs" →
bananacasts:
Word has it the Kinect is going to be expanded as a Windows interface. If Microsoft are smart, they will expand the Xbox and Kinect brands into the rest of their business. They should explode Xbox Live into a service across Windows PCs, Xbox, and their phones.
Noteworthy that Xbox Live has already come to Windows as Games for Windows Live, which is pretty much feature complete in...
December 2011
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MacBook Air: yes or no?
Cannot decide if I should pick up a MacBook Air while I’m here in the US or not. Here’s my wondering aloud. Feel free to offer advice.
What I have now: an ageing MacBook Pro (mid ‘08); which is mostly tethered to a 26” Samsung monitor on my desk. One of the two GPUs is busted and the battery is shot. I rarely use it off the desk, although I might if it wasn’t so...
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“I’m really enjoying Downton Abbey, although there are some implausible...”
– Danielle. My American readers might not realise this, but snootily holding the BBC up as being just plain better than other channels is not just an important step on her path to becoming British — but to becoming a British, middle class liberal. I just need to get her reading the Guardian now.
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iOS gaming versus console gaming
tj replied to your post: Xbox 360 first-run game install procedures are getting out of hand This is why my only gaming devices are iOS devices.
Meh. There’s nothing on iOS to compare to Skyrim or Forza 4 or Minecraft, and those are just the...
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Xbox 360 first-run game install procedures are...
I just bought Forza Motorsport 4, an eagerly-awaited title from a Microsoft-owned dev team (i.e. we can assume that this game follows Microsoft’s best practices). Here’s what I had to do to get the game running. These steps are optional, but will result in a degraded experience if you don’t do them.
Find the special “I bought this game new, not pre-owned, so give me free...
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November 2011
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“7:00 a.m. I wake up, and just as I have done every morning since puberty, I...”
– Domenick Scudera details a gay day in his gay lifestyle. Click through for the rest of this awesome essay. (via @lexfri and @dmoren.)
Adventures in recruiter cold-emailing
Recruiter: Apologies if this is slightly off the mark, but I am currently looking for a Front Arena Developer (see spec below) for my client in London.
Me: I'm 140 miles outside London and I've never even heard of Front Arena, let alone know how to use it. So yes. You're "slightly off the mark".
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This is Not a Cheesesteak: Welsh Cheesesteak? →
Michaelangelo from the awesome blog This Is Not A Cheesesteak did a long post writing up of an email exchange we had where we discussed how authentic (or not) I could make a Philly Cheesesteak here in the UK. And then he said some very complementary things about my food blog, which was damned decent of him. Check it out!
October 2011
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“We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and...”
– From the Guardian’s Corrections and Clarifications column in 2007 (via the BBC’s Magazine Monitor.)
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Generation X is sick of your bullshit.
Go read the whole thing.
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“It’s just before midnight on a Monday, and Houston has turned his favorite...”
– From Forbes’s profile on Dropbox creator Drew Houston.
This whole without-irony brogramming thing leaves me utterly cold, I have to admit. I’m pretty sure I’d be miserable working there.
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WatchWe seem to have some incredibly fast-moving clouds here tonight.
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